Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist-researcher based in Port Adelaide, Kaurna Country.
She currently teaches Black Poetics in the Critical Indigenous Studies major, Flinders University and is completing her thesis at Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame.
Recent work:
Short presentation with Stephen Muecke as part of the Southern Anthropocenes book launch. Reflecting on how walking the Lurujarri Trail offers us ways to counter the ‘business as usual’ narrative of land as property.
Full book chapter: Eadie J & Muecke S (2025) ‘Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method‘ in Casper Bruun Jensen (ed), Southern Anthropocenes, Routledge: NY.
poetry / creative
Eadie, J (2025) ‘everything is happening at once’, Plumwood Mountain Journal, vol 21:1
Eadie, J (2024) ‘The Impact of Missionaries’ , Westerly Magazine, vol 69:1
Eadie J and The Kaurna Womens Art Collective (2023) ‘Footprints’, Tarnanthi exhibition installation and text Eadie, J (2022) ‘Love Letter Backwards’ in accompanying texts: UNRAVEL exhibition publication
Eadie, J et al., (2021) ‘A Collaboration with Looking Glass’ in FUMA Gallery exhibition: Looking Glass, Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art and Ikon Gallery with curator Hetti Perkins)
Eadie, J (2021) ‘Against Segregation’ in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 101
Eadie, J (2020) 'It Turns Back Upon Itself' in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 97
Eadie, J & Semmens, A (2020) 'LEAVE ONLY YOUR FOOTPRINTS: a dialogue exploring identity and connection to Country that is enabled through embodied movement', Critical Path Digital Interchange Festival
journal articles / book chapters
Eadie J & Muecke S (2025) ‘ Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method ‘ in Casper Bruun Jensen (ed), Southern Anthropocenes, Routledge: NY.
Muecke et al (2025) ‘Saltfish: ecologies of creative processes’ in Anna Hickey-Moody et al., (eds), New Materialist Affirmations: Creative Research Interventions in Methods and Practice, Edinburgh University Press:UK
Eadie J & Muecke S (2024) ‘Seaside Concepts: Walking and Writing the Lurujarri Trail’ in Felicity Picken & Emma Waterton (eds), Shores, Surfaces and Depths: Oceanic Cultures, Routledge: NY.
Muecke et al.,(2022) ‘Saltfish’, Sydney Review of Books
Eadie J (2021) ‘So Many Birds/One River: A fictocritical response to the Port-Yarta Puulti River, Kaurna Country’, TEXT Journal
Muecke, S & Eadie, J (2020) 'Ways of Life: Knowledge Transfer and Aboriginal Heritage Trails' Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53:8
Eadie J (2014) ‘The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age’ Modern Fiction Studies 60:1
books
exhibitions & residencies
2024 – memory line, wash house gallery, Sauerbier House
2023/24 – witness/tree project, Nexus Arts
2024 – NEOTERICA(text) - Adelaide Festival
2023 – Nexus Studio Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens
2023 - Footprints w/ The Kaurna Womens Art Collective & Dave Laslett - Tarnanthi Festival
2023 - Sauerbier House Cultural Exchange Residency
2023 - LARTELARE artist talk & exhibition w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2023 - LARTELARE residency w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2022 - Deep Dive Artist Residency, POP Gallery Port Adelaide
2022 – Following the River, SALA residency and exhibition
2022 - BREW Writer in Residence, Pandanus, NT 2022 – UNRAVEL exhibition & performance w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill
2021 - The Impact of Missionaries, The Mill Gallery
2021 - Breakout Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill Adelaide
2020 - Critical Path Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens
2020 - Writer in Residence, The Mill Adelaide
2018 - Poet in Residence, City of Adelaide
prizes
2024 – finalist: Bowness Photography Prize, MAPh
2024 – finalist: CLIP prize, Perth Centre for Photography
2023 – finalist: Olive Cotton Award w/ Dave Laslett (lead artist) and Aunty Tina Flanagan
commissions
2025 - ‘1967’ text and transcription, National Portrait Gallery
2024 - ‘this push and pull between us’, witness/ tree project
2022/23 - OSCA Public art commission w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie
2020 - Critical Path Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens
contact: ndjeadie@gmail.com
Recent work:
Short presentation with Stephen Muecke as part of the Southern Anthropocenes book launch. Reflecting on how walking the Lurujarri Trail offers us ways to counter the ‘business as usual’ narrative of land as property.
Full book chapter: Eadie J & Muecke S (2025) ‘Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method‘ in Casper Bruun Jensen (ed), Southern Anthropocenes, Routledge: NY.
poetry / creative
Eadie, J (2025) ‘everything is happening at once’, Plumwood Mountain Journal, vol 21:1
Eadie, J (2024) ‘The Impact of Missionaries’ , Westerly Magazine, vol 69:1
Eadie J and The Kaurna Womens Art Collective (2023) ‘Footprints’, Tarnanthi exhibition installation and text Eadie, J (2022) ‘Love Letter Backwards’ in accompanying texts: UNRAVEL exhibition publication
Eadie, J et al., (2021) ‘A Collaboration with Looking Glass’ in FUMA Gallery exhibition: Looking Glass, Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art and Ikon Gallery with curator Hetti Perkins)
Eadie, J (2021) ‘Against Segregation’ in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 101
Eadie, J (2020) 'It Turns Back Upon Itself' in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 97
Eadie, J & Semmens, A (2020) 'LEAVE ONLY YOUR FOOTPRINTS: a dialogue exploring identity and connection to Country that is enabled through embodied movement', Critical Path Digital Interchange Festival
journal articles / book chapters
Eadie J & Muecke S (2025) ‘ Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method ‘ in Casper Bruun Jensen (ed), Southern Anthropocenes, Routledge: NY.
Muecke et al (2025) ‘Saltfish: ecologies of creative processes’ in Anna Hickey-Moody et al., (eds), New Materialist Affirmations: Creative Research Interventions in Methods and Practice, Edinburgh University Press:UK
Eadie J & Muecke S (2024) ‘Seaside Concepts: Walking and Writing the Lurujarri Trail’ in Felicity Picken & Emma Waterton (eds), Shores, Surfaces and Depths: Oceanic Cultures, Routledge: NY.
Muecke et al.,(2022) ‘Saltfish’, Sydney Review of Books
Eadie J (2021) ‘So Many Birds/One River: A fictocritical response to the Port-Yarta Puulti River, Kaurna Country’, TEXT Journal
Muecke, S & Eadie, J (2020) 'Ways of Life: Knowledge Transfer and Aboriginal Heritage Trails' Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53:8
Eadie J (2014) ‘The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age’ Modern Fiction Studies 60:1
books
exhibitions & residencies
2024 – memory line, wash house gallery, Sauerbier House
2023/24 – witness/tree project, Nexus Arts
2024 – NEOTERICA(text) - Adelaide Festival
2023 – Nexus Studio Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens
2023 - Footprints w/ The Kaurna Womens Art Collective & Dave Laslett - Tarnanthi Festival
2023 - Sauerbier House Cultural Exchange Residency
2023 - LARTELARE artist talk & exhibition w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2023 - LARTELARE residency w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix
2022 - Deep Dive Artist Residency, POP Gallery Port Adelaide
2022 – Following the River, SALA residency and exhibition
2022 - BREW Writer in Residence, Pandanus, NT 2022 – UNRAVEL exhibition & performance w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill
2021 - The Impact of Missionaries, The Mill Gallery
2021 - Breakout Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill Adelaide
2020 - Critical Path Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens
2020 - Writer in Residence, The Mill Adelaide
2018 - Poet in Residence, City of Adelaide
prizes
2024 – finalist: Bowness Photography Prize, MAPh
2024 – finalist: CLIP prize, Perth Centre for Photography
2023 – finalist: Olive Cotton Award w/ Dave Laslett (lead artist) and Aunty Tina Flanagan
commissions
2025 - ‘1967’ text and transcription, National Portrait Gallery
2024 - ‘this push and pull between us’, witness/ tree project
2022/23 - OSCA Public art commission w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie
2020 - Critical Path Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens
contact: ndjeadie@gmail.com